Complacency

James 4:13-14 NIV
Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

Complacency grows out of a false security in our new found lives:
When are on the road to recovery we can get into a false sense of security, Where we feel we have got it beat and life is going to be great from here on in. We can take God for granted and forget it is Him who has blessed us with the gift of recovery and transformed lives.

Complacency is evidence of failing to apply the principles of the Twelve Steps to our lives:
We must never believe that knowledge of the principles of recovery is enough to keep us clean. Recovery is daily reliance on God - daily commitment to live by His principles - daily application of what we have learned through prayer and meditation.

Complacency often degenerates into relapse:
When we first get recovery we are excited and keen to grow but as we grow it is easy for us to become lazy and cease practicing the things that keep us on the recovery road. Attendance at meetings - daily devotions and prayer - listening to and following the directions of God - seeking counsel from our sponsor.

Complacency brings God's loving discipline:
God doesn't forget us - though He doesn't always rescue us at the time we want. He does act in His time and sometimes that action is discipline. Discipline not to punish us but to bring us back to Him. The Holy Spirit can reignite the excitement and desire to grow in all areas of our lives if we allow Him to work in our hearts.